Tag: hawkes bay
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My Sister has a Farmy
Yesterday I said my last gulping goodbye when Senior Son dropped me off at the airport, with my lightened luggage, to collect my little zip zip rental car. Wellington is very easy to drive out of especially from the airport and even in the misty rain and low cloud. My little zip zip car and…
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More wine, less whine.
Illinois was the fourth largest producer of wine grapes in the US up until Prohibition in 1919. Johns Great-grandmother being one of those paid up card carrying tough old prohibition women. I even have her prohibition prayer cards to prove it somewhere around here. During this period many vineyards were ripped out and put into…
The Kitchen's Garden 